Canada embarked on a seemingly harmless attempt to create its own flag but the issue revealed a nation hotly divided on what ...

The Red Ensign flag is flown on British commercial vessels at sea The cargo ship Stena Impero, seized by Iran last week, was sailing under a British flag - but it was owned by a Swedish company ...

Any vessel registered in the UK, a Crown Dependency or UK Overseas Territory, is a British ship and is entitled to fly the Red Ensign flag.

Across the ocean in the United Kingdom, the legacies of Winston ... nostalgists who see the Red Ensign as Canada’s true flag. The second are white supremacists who have tried to make the Red ...

The Red Ensign Group (*) brings together 13 shipping registers whose vessels are entitled to fly British merchant navy flag or Red Ensign. The group aims to ensure that quality standards in ...